The story of an African-American man coming to grips with his sexuality and who’s taken under the wing of a local Miami drug dealer, “Moonlight” was produced by Pitt’s production company Plan B and has been branded a “masterpiece” by Rolling Stone after its Saturday premiere. It was written and directed by Barry Jenkins.

Last year Pitt was a producer of the Oscar-nominated “The Big Short” as well as his soggy and much less successful collaboration with Angelina Jolie, “By the Sea.”

David Permut — the Hollywood producer whose credits include “Face/Off” and is behind Mel Gibson’s first film as a director in a decade, which just played in Venice — explained of Toronto, “There are some gold nuggets here, but you have to sift through the ones that don’t work.” Scouting for new talent, he’s seeing five films a day and has managed to sit through 22 since the fest started Thursday.

“No parties, I’m too old for parties,” Permut joked. “I’ll see five films a day from the first day to the last.”

Permut’s Gibson film set in WWII, “Hacksaw Ridge,” took 16 years to make and was called “a testament to [Gibson’s] filmmaking chops, and also an act of atonement that may succeed in bringing Gibson back,” by Variety this month.